"The California Gold Rush: Getting there, Mining, Contemporary stories and accounts, Private coiners and assayers, San Francisco Mint -- Treasure of the S.S. Central America: Saga at sea of the ...

Traces of California's Gold Rush persist in this historic city, which boasts a downtown where the past comes to life and ...

About a decade before silver was discovered in Nevada, the West’s first consequential mining boom occurred on the other side of the Sierra Nevada near a place called Coloma. In 1839, John Sutter ...

Tanner Radcliffe, a firefighter with the Cal Fire Tuolumne Calaveras Unit, puts water on an engulfed structure during the Lightning Complex fire Tuesday night in Chinese Camp, Calif. (Stephen Lam / ...

The California gold rush is one of the most iconic stories in American history. While the gold rush is taught in almost every U.S. history class in the United States, often left out is the Native ...

Firefighters are battling a fast-moving wildfire in Central California that’s already burned through thousands of acres and damaged and destroyed multiple buildings in a historic Gold Rush town after ...

One of nearly two dozen fires burning across Northern California on Wednesday scorched homes in a Gold Rush town settled in the 1850s by thousands of Chinese miners who had faced discrimination and ...

People who look after some of the North State's oldest hotels, houses, public buildings and even an entire 'ghost' town share ...

It’s a dish steeped in Gold Rush history — and depending on your palate, it might be one of the most unusual, or flat-out off-putting, meals in California cuisine. The combo? Eggs, bacon and fried ...